People. Wildlife. Conservation.

SWAZILAND’S CITES PROPOSAL TO SELL WHITE RHINO HORN. A Letter from Michael Eustace. Swaziland has submitted a proposal to sell their horn stocks of 330 kg and also to sell, in the future, 20 kg annu...Read More

A paper with the title DOES LEGALIZATION REDUCE BLACK MARKET ACTIVITY? EVIDENCE FROM A GLOBAL IVORY EXPERIMENT AND ELEPHANT POACHING DATA was released on 13th June, 2016. It was accompanied sim...Read More

The Dande Safari Area in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe forms a vital wildlife corridor between the Chewore Safari Area in the west and the country of Mozambique in the east. Without safari hunting th...Read More

The Kingdom of Swaziland has submitted a proposal to CITES CoP17 to allow a controlled trade in rhino horn accruing from natural deaths, harvesting, and her own poached rhinos. It is appropriate here ...Read More

A coutada is a state wildlife management area in Mozambique in which safari hunting is permitted. During the 25-year civil war which ended in 1992, safari hunting was not possible because of security ...Read More

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a wildlife poaching crisis. Billions of dollars are sunk into ‘development’ aid and innumerable ‘conservation’ organizations dedicating themselves to saving one sp...Read More

So its finally happened, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has listed the African lion on the US endangered species list. Panthera leo leo, the lion subspecies found in India and wes...Read More

The concern expressed by John Forrest in a recent article in the journal Oxpecker that mortality among white rhino in South Africa due to present drought conditions could exceed numbers poached, made ...Read More

The government and people of Tanzania have set aside 30% of the country’s total landmass for wildlife conservation. Approximately 100 000 square miles of this land lies outside of national parks...Read More

I thought I would clarify the whole saga around rhino ranching, Ian Players position on that topic and on the whole subject of legalization of trade in horn, and how he came to play a key role in the ...Read More